Ancient Dream (Asaki yumemishi)
Artist
Shinoda Toko
(Japanese, born 1913)
Date2007
Mediumlithograph with broad hand-applied gray sumi ink brush strokes
Dimensions38 x 28 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineHarriet B. Bancroft Fund
Object number2009.160
Label TextCalligraphy in hiragana syllabic writing: “no more shallow dreaming” (asaki yumemishi); a line from an ancient poetic version (with Buddhist connotations) of the Japanese Iroha (“ABC’s”)ProvenanceThe Tolman Collection, New York, NYOn View
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